Asım Gündüz Explained

Âsım Gündüz
1316-P. 2[1]
Birth Place:Kütahya, Ottoman Empire
Death Place:Istanbul, Turkey
Placeofburial:Zincirlikuyu Cemetery
Allegiance:
Turkey
Serviceyears:Ottoman: 1901–1920
Turkey: August 3, 1921 – August 3, 1945
Rank:Orgeneral
Commands:Chief of Staff of the III Corps, Chief of Staff of the Sinai Front, Vice Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army, 48th Division, teacher of tactics in the Staff College, teacher of princes, 2nd division of the General Staff
Chief of Staff of the Western Front, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, VIII Corps, IX Corps, V Corps, member of the Military Supreme Council
Battles:Balkan Wars
First World War
War of Independence
Laterwork:Member of the GNAT (Kütahya)

Âsım Gündüz (1880; Kütahya – January 14, 1970; Istanbul) was an officer of the Ottoman Army and a general of the Turkish Army.

During the Second World War he was the assistant of Chief of the General Staff Fevzi Çakmak.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. T.C. Genelkurmay Harp Tarihi Başkanlığı Yayınları, Türk İstiklâl Harbine Katılan Tümen ve Daha Üst Kademelerdeki Komutanların Biyografileri, Genkurmay Başkanlığı Basımevi, Ankara, 1972, p. 124.
  2. John M. VanderLippe, The politics of Turkish democracy: İsmet İnönü and the formation of the multi-party system, 1938-1950, SUNY Press, 2005 .